be deflected
Example Sentences
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"The team's amazingly precise measurement again validates kinetic impact as a technique for defending Earth against asteroid hazards and shows how a binary asteroid might be deflected by impacting just one member of the pair."
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
"In addition, when the pulses travel near a very massive object, they may be deflected and experience time delays due to the warping of space-time, as predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
"He wanted to show that we were all resilient and he wasn't going to be deflected from his public sector service because of what had happened."
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
Sitting on the end of the bench late in the second period, Campbell was cut when he was hit in the face by a puck that seemed to be deflected by Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
Ordinarily Mack would have thrown himself headlong into this problem but now he was not to be deflected.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
